18th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music

The Eighteenth Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music will take place at the University of Toronto, Canada, from Wednesday 18 June to Saturday 21 June 2014. The programme committee welcomes proposals on any aspect of music during the long 19th Century, and also invites proposals that engage with any of the following themes:

• Research on composers with major anniversaries in the years surrounding the conference, including Foster, Meyerbeer, Nielsen, Strauss, Mahler-Werfel, Sibelius, Scriabin;
• Music and conflict from the Congress of Vienna to the onset of WWI;
• Movement, gesture, and dance in 19th-century music and musical discourses;
• Audiences, listening, and spectatorship in the 19th century;
• 19th-century music and ideas of nature;
• Analysis, hermeneutics, and 19th-century music;
• Riemannian and neo-Riemannian theory: historical, theoretical, and analytical perspectives;
• History and practice of Schenkerian analysis;
• Music in North America and the idea of North America in 19th-century music.

Proposals are invited for the following:
• Individual Papers (20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for discussion);
• Themed Sessions (three or four papers, each 20 minutes long with 10 minutes for discussion);
• Roundtable Sessions (up to six people each giving a brief position paper, followed by a general discussion);
• Performances and Lecture Recitals.